Live CCTV footage to be available on YouTube

As a cost cutting measure police forces around the UK are to close down CCTV monitoring control rooms and instead are providing footage from the cameras as a live feed on YouTube.

It is hoped that, with the audience that YouTube provides, members of the public will see much more of what’s happening on the nation’s street than the current operators and will give Crimestoppers a call.

‘We’ve had to do this,’ said Chief Superintendent Pratt of Teesside Constabulary, ‘as it’s often so boring that our people nod off and miss important crimes. Only the on-line community have the stamina to stare for hours on end at poor quality footage of people’s arsing about – and now at least we can say the streets are being monitored..’

[via Newsbiscuit]

emily | 7:32 AM | YouTube |
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NewsBiscuit is satire, apparently. (You probably knew that already, but it took me a few minutes to figure it out.) :)

Posted by: Kevin Arthur | April 24, 2008 5:05 AM

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